Take a look back at some individuals who were failed by the justice system and wrongfully convicted.

Shocking wrongful convictions in U.S. history

Anthony Ray Hinton

Anthony Ray Hinton was sentenced to death in 1985 and spent 30 years in prison when he was wrongfully convicted of separately murdering two restaurant managers, John Davidson and Thomas Wayne Vasona, in Birmingham, Alabama on Feb. 25 and July 2, 1985. Despite having an alibi -- his timecard showed he was working at his warehouse job during the times of the murders -- he was still convicted because bullets from the crime scene supposedly matched Hinton's gun. Hinton was exonerated after 30 years in prison when the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences concluded that bullets from the murders could not be linked to his gun. He was the 152nd person to be exonerated from death row in the United States.